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many witneffes, who can atteft it: and if p fir by 
fhall find themfelves at a lofs to believe it, up ,n us 
bare relation, they may have further evidence, if ?hey 
will be at the pains to confult a public record of the 
corporation, made by the order of the pref .nt magif- 
trates j and alfo the regifler of the parifla of Ail Saints 
in Malden, where he was buried ; in both which 
they will find the main fadls properly vouched. 
Mr. Bright was defcended from families greatly 
inclined to corpulency, both on his father’s and his 
mother’s fide. Many of his anceflors and relations 
have been remarkably fat, though very far inferior 
to him in bulk. He was always fat from a child, 
and yet very flrong and adtive, and ufed a great 
deal of exercife, both when a boy, and after he be- 
came a man, which he continued to do till within 
the lafl two or three years of his life, when he be- 
came too unwieldy. He could walk about very 
well, and nimbly too, having great flrength of muf- 
cles ; and could not only ride on horfeback, but 
would fometimes gallop after he was grown to 
between 30 and 40 flones weight. He ufed to go 
to London about his bufinefs, till the journey of 40 
miles, and going about there, became too great a 
fatigue to him ; and he left it off for fome years be- 
fore he died. But he was grown to fuch a fize be- 
fore he left it off, that he was the gazing-flock and 
admiration of all people, as he walked along the 
flreets. In the lafl year or two he could walk but a 
little way, being foon tired, and out of breath, and 
travelled abroad but little, and that in a chaife. He 
was fo large and fat a boy, that at the age of 1 2 years 
and a half he weighed 1 o flones and 4 pounds horfe- 
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